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  • Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

    Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.14, Harper Collins
  • There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes, within the pages like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

    Dream   Reading   Moving  
    Rainer Maria Rilke (1930). “The Journal of My Other Self”
  • The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.

    Reading   Men   Doors  
    Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.100, University of Chicago Press
  • When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

    Book   Reading   Space  
  • I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

    Nature   Book   Reading  
    "Dreamtigers". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1960.
  • The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

  • If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.

    Reading   Book   Smoking  
  • Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

    Travel   Book   Reading  
    Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.70, Ballantine Books
  • My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

  • The more you read, the more things you will know.

  • I took Eugene Sue's Arthur from the reading-room. It's indescribable, enough to make you vomit. You have to read this to realize the pitifulness of money, success, and the public. Literature has become consumptive. It spits and slobbers, covers its blisters with salve and sticking-plaster, and has grown bald from too much hair-slicking. It would take Christ of art to cure this leper.

    Art   Reading   Writing  
  • I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation as delicious as dropping into the water off the concrete edge of the Fitzroy Baths.

  • You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

  • A house without books is like a room without windows.

    "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.
  • I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

    Reading   Men   Healthy  
    Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.11, Diderot Publishing
  • I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.

    Reading   Museums   Rooms  
    Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.120, Hachette UK
  • I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.

    Real   Reading   Night  
    Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.61, Random House
  • It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.

  • Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn't have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn't be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library's peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light.

    Book   Reading   Light  
    FaceBook post by Karen Russell from Dec 02, 2012
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